The following method checks whether the given list has duplicate elements. It uses the property of set() which removes duplicate elements from the list.
def all_unique(lst):
return len(lst) == len(set(lst))
x = [1,1,2,2,3,2,3,4,5,6]
y = [1,2,3,4,5]
all_unique(x) # False
all_unique(y) # True